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I looked into my options really carefully when choosing my phone last year. Few things to note, when looking for an Android phone:

• Make sure it’s either a pixel or a Snapdragon powered phone. This just means that if the manufacturer does some stupid stuff, there is a higher probability of your phone having a custom rom.
• Stay away from Samsung if you want to install custom roms, they are really against it.
• Pick a manufacturer of good build quality and software updates being stable, some manufacturers just half as them and brick the phone/ damage display/motherboard because they pushed update with wrong voltage.
• if you want a basic phone and don’t really care about the most beautiful photos or do heavy mobile gaming, just pick a cheap phone, it will be more than enough.

The phone I picked was Moto G52, it cost me ~150USD and it is one of the best phone experiences I’ve had. It lasts me 2-3 days on a charge, mostly because I do close to nothing on it just answering calling/messages and some basic internet surfing. For my purpose, it is better than a top end iPhone/Android phone.

Motorola is quite slow with updates, but the community is great and created and are now maintaing custom roms, which means I get the latest software updates quite regularly. The camera is passable, but the speakers they are loud like really really loud, louder almost all smartphone.

Bonus points: it has a headphone jack.

I am using object storage on my personal instance, migration should also be relatively simple, pictrs has good documentation.

I see it

Their enterprise stuff works like a charm on Linux

I also got myself a surname.me domain for this reason. Now I feel like a boss.

p.s. I’m also a bit scared if the .me domain could be called of by the country,. since it’s not a genericTLD, controlled by Montenegro.

You can always use context clues. For example you go they for singular and they all for group.

So no more racoons? 🥺

So did you give in and start feeding them? Or did it evolve into a war, which you lost by moving somewhere else?

Rather than a screen a good place to mount phone by default which is easy to remove and place would be amazing.

You will be surprised to find that a lot of European nations actually don’t give a shit about it. I sometimes proxy to a random European country to access a few websites which are unavailable in my country.